Efficient access methods are reviewed and explored in relation to the global surface hourly data set and several of its derivative products. Typical access paradigms are compared ...
We provide an evaluation of query execution plans (QEP) in the case of queries with one or two spatial joins. The QEPs assume R -tree indexed relations and use a common set of spat...
Apostolos Papadopoulos, Philippe Rigaux, Michel Sc...
In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...
Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
ABSTRACT - In this paperwe describe the design, implementation, and performance of an incremental join facility that has been added as an extension to the Starburst extensible DBMS...
Michael J. Carey, Eugene J. Shekita, George Lapis,...